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Magritte and Literature, Elective Affinities. Magritte?s interarts dialog with literature The Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte (1898?1967) is well known for his thought-provoking and witty images that challenge the observer?s preconditioned perceptions of reality.
BE - , UPL, 2014 paperback, 288 p., English. ISBN 9789058679604.
Magritte and Literature examines some of the artist's major paintings whose titles were influenced by and related to works of literature. Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, Goethe's Elective Affinities, and Poe's The Domain of Arnheim are representative examples of Magritte's interarts dialog with literary figures. His strategy is to paint visible thought, and this reverse ekphrasis, the opposite of a rhetorical description of a painting, undermines the written text. When he succeeds,
The Eye of the Needle.
New York Viking Press 1967 1 vol. relié in-8, cartonnage de l'éditeur, jaquette, 178 pp. (jaquette un peu jaunie). Texte en anglais. Edition originale sans grand papier du premier roman de l'auteur, avec un envoi autographe signé de l'auteur à Nathalie Sarraute. Bon exemplaire.
